John Maginnis: Jindal copes with rejection from feds

9:11 PM,
May 6, 2014

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John Maginnis

They figured this day would come and the critics and enemies of Gov. Bobby Jindal were lined up on Friday with a chorus of "I told you so" when the federal Medicaid agency rejected the state's financial plan for the new public-private hospital partnerships. Leading vocalists Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. John Bel Edwards and Republican treasurer and potential candidate John Kennedy pointed to their own previous statements warning that the new arrangements would not pass muster or, if they did, would not save the state any money in the end.